Matthew Poole wrote:
On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, John @ netTRUST wrote:
Bring on LLU - 2 to 3 years from now I think we'll be talking about a different landscape.
And there's the rub. currently You have to go through Telecom if you're outside WLG/CHC and want a terrestrial connection to your home. They govern the bottom two layers of the connection absolutely, so even if an ISP wanted to offer a premium service with higher reliability they couldn't do it without laying their own network.
To compliment Donald's question a little more (the answer, Donald, is "more DSLAMs = more redundancy, right?"), LLU doesn't help that much either. Sure, you eliminate TNZ's backhaul & access network, but now the ISP with much less resources has to manage those, probably with less diversity. However.... the biggest fault point: from the exchange/CO/cabinet/DSLAM to the subscriber is still managed by the incumbent. So when that faults, due to a truck hitting a copper bundle, or someone setting fire to a cabinet, or a landslide, or whatever, you're still reliant on the incumbent truck-rolling to get that sorted. If you really want end-to-end QoS and SLA guarantees, then you kinda need your own network end-to-end.